Fulham stretched their unbeaten run to five games after being held to a 1-1 draw by Manchester City at Craven Cottage.
Jimmy Bullard's first league goal of the season cancelled out Benjani Mwaruwari's early opener for City.
City broke the deadlock after just six minutes when Benjani rose highest to head home Pablo Zabaleta's superb cross from the right.
Fulham drew level on 27 minutes when Bullard drilled home a shot from an acute angle after some fine approach play by Bobby Zamora.
Both sides had chances to win the game in the second half, but they had to be content with a point apiece.
City were without top scorer Robinho, however, and also missed Micah Richards in defence, who failed to shake off an ankle injury.
For all Benjani's power and Shaun Wright-Phillips' trickery, City were not convincing going forward in the absence of Robinho, showing little to suggest that strong competition awaits some of the grandiose names linked with January moves to the club.
It looked a different story early on, though, when Benjani outjumped and outmuscled Aaron Hughes and Brede Hangeland to head home Zabaleta's cross in the sixth minute.
Wright-Phillips had already run at the Fulham defence and dragged a shot wide before Benjani's goal, and in the eighth minute Stephen Ireland fired wide following a poor punch from Schwarzer.
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